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In: Is Christianity really Satanic?  — view comment
As Richard Dawkins often points out, if God wanted to show mercy he could have done it freely without killing himself, accepting the law, and binding ...
October 16, 2020 at 06:24
In: Is Christianity really Satanic?  — view comment
I said the opposite Who cares? It wasn't God's nature, nor the Father or the Holy Ghost They believe it is cannibalism mr. I am saying not to trust re...
October 16, 2020 at 05:48
In: Animal pain  — view comment
I see. You don't even know what an animal is. This is ridiculous! God if he is goodness-perfection itself would have, with almighty power, made learni...
October 16, 2020 at 01:04
In: Animal pain  — view comment
The pain felt by the animals would have to be for THEIR good and there must have been NO other way to achieve this good without allowing the pain. Sor...
October 15, 2020 at 17:20
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
Abelard wrote 3 works on the Trinity, making fine distinctions between unity and relation. I don't know if I can use his ideas or not
October 15, 2020 at 11:14
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
I am more into neutral monism and pluralism. Kant, then Fitche, then Schelling, then Hegel, and finally Schopenhauer tried to say the world was matter...
October 15, 2020 at 09:34
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
Your ideas are interesting and consistent
October 15, 2020 at 09:28
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
What options to be have of interpreting Enformation apart from mathematics? Plato tried to refute this by saying that the question "is 4 big?" has no ...
October 14, 2020 at 03:10
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
Y Are you saying THE WORLD is corporeal consciousness or simply information? We might not be anything
October 14, 2020 at 02:30
In: Positive nihilism and God  — view comment
Catholics at least have an authority to tell them what the Bible means.They don't rely on themselves for interpretation of the Scripture. They just re...
October 14, 2020 at 01:47
In: Positive nihilism and God  — view comment
Many many Protestants have told me that, according to the Bible, all sins are equal before God What about Calvinism?
October 14, 2020 at 01:45
In: Objective beauty provides evidence towards theism.  — view comment
I would like to add: why is the existence of "objective beauty" probable under theism? A Platonic theism, sure. But not all theisms. There are many fo...
October 13, 2020 at 16:10
In: Objective beauty provides evidence towards theism.  — view comment
A “brute fact” is beautiful. Did any of you watch the Land Before Time as a kid?
October 13, 2020 at 16:01
In: Positive nihilism and God  — view comment
The Bible says the Church is the spouse of Jesus. Yet the Church is nothing else but the assembly of Christian. So a Christian is being called to marr...
October 13, 2020 at 15:52
In: Positive nihilism and God  — view comment
It's not always a choice, is usually a revolting one, and there is much evidence that the idea of God that most Westerners hold is illogical. Nietzsch...
October 13, 2020 at 15:18
In: Positive nihilism and God  — view comment
The difference between Buddhist love and a mature Christian love is that the latter is unnatural (which is why they call it "supernatural") and unheal...
October 13, 2020 at 05:44
In: Objective beauty provides evidence towards theism.  — view comment
Matter and form are one. Some people find a certain model beautiful, others find her rather odd looking
October 13, 2020 at 03:24
In: Objective beauty provides evidence towards theism.  — view comment
The beauty thermometer varies from person to culture. There is no standard. The reason we animals enjoy beauty is the same reason lions play: it reboo...
October 13, 2020 at 02:26
In: The Problem with Modern Science  — view comment
Does you contemplation come from the East or Christianity? Scholasticism did nothing but slow down progress in science because they were book obsessed...
October 13, 2020 at 02:22
In: The Problem with Modern Science  — view comment
Aristotle had no idea of statistics and spoke less directly of scientific method than Bacon. All Aristotle did was propose a awkward useless theory ca...
October 13, 2020 at 02:10
In: Positive nihilism and God  — view comment
Jungian phsychology says we should not get stuck in attachment to an archetype. Nietzsche failed in this (there many excuses for being a Nietzsche tho...
October 13, 2020 at 01:34
In: Is there a religion or doctrine that has no rules to be obeyed?  — view comment
I don't think there are are any spiritual entities that love us. Any experience of them is the brain being altered or acting abnormally
October 13, 2020 at 01:22
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
Here's a podcast that is catching my eye https://www.google.com/search?q=the+hidden+djinn&rlz=1C1OKWM_enUS867US867&oq=the+hidden+j&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j...
October 13, 2020 at 00:41
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
Here is a specific audio video you might find quaint. Long before computers.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIGrAg6vuMA
October 13, 2020 at 00:40
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
"Maybe the devil is God, and God is the devil." Some wonder this. "God is the devil unknown" Esoteric cosmology is fun, and physicist are tempted to i...
October 13, 2020 at 00:07
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
You have a strange sense of "substance" and thus must logically subscribe to the theory that everything is determined except free will. Modern science...
October 13, 2020 at 00:02
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
You are obviously a process philosopher and a very modern type of that as well. There are Christians versions of these ideas i've come accross: https:...
October 12, 2020 at 23:43
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
If we found that instead of strings, there were tiny photons that rule the world, I think the German idealists and romantics would sing from their gra...
October 12, 2020 at 23:34
In: Objective beauty provides evidence towards theism.  — view comment
I don't see a whole perfect supernatural being to be beautiful. An object, like a perfect Platonic Form, can be beautiful. Contingent things as well. ...
October 12, 2020 at 23:31
In: Determinism, Reversibility, Decoherence and Transaction  — view comment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity_(alternative_formulations) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_general_relativity Not much ...
October 12, 2020 at 23:29
In: Is there a religion or doctrine that has no rules to be obeyed?  — view comment
Sometimes you turn the other cheek, other times you defend. It depends on the situation
October 12, 2020 at 23:28
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
Anything you apply to "God" can be applied to matter because there is no proof these things do not apply to matter but do to something non-composite
October 12, 2020 at 15:22
In: Is there a religion or doctrine that has no rules to be obeyed?  — view comment
Luke 3:14 "Soldiers also asked him, “'And we, what shall we do?' And he said to them, 'Do not extort money from anyone by threats or by false accusati...
October 12, 2020 at 15:20
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
Perhaps that sounds like rubbish. However, Enformation seems to me to be either pantheistic or panentheistic digitalism, as if pixels have replaced st...
October 12, 2020 at 05:50
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
Hindus believe the world is aural vibration. Books like The Secret say the highest concentration of vibration is in the mammals' brain. Anyway, in spe...
October 12, 2020 at 05:09
In: Determinism, Reversibility, Decoherence and Transaction  — view comment
Clarification: MU I believe is arguing for purpose teleology implanted by a Prime Moving Personlity (or 3 such, idn yet)
October 12, 2020 at 04:17
In: Atheism: A Story of Teenage Anguish  — view comment
When I was losing my faith (17-18), I prayered to God as sincerely as anyone else. Nothing. Typical to blame the "sinner" for lack of sincerety instea...
October 12, 2020 at 04:14
In: Atheism: A Story of Teenage Anguish  — view comment
No he wont
October 12, 2020 at 03:40
In: Atheism: A Story of Teenage Anguish  — view comment
There is no clear prophecy which we know was written before AD which could not have been deliberately fulfilled by Jesus and which came true. Reality ...
October 12, 2020 at 02:44
In: Atheism: A Story of Teenage Anguish  — view comment
Bergson was not a theist. Also, teenage Christians are told by their parents to "rebel against everything that is not Christian
October 12, 2020 at 02:40
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
Modern physics is open to interpretation. Relational theory of time seems correct, although I reject relational theory of space
October 12, 2020 at 02:16
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
Time in Bergsonian sense is real. I agree with Aristotle, Augustine, Aquimas, and Leibniz that time is a mental thing, something not outside us. Smart...
October 12, 2020 at 02:11
In: Anaxagoras  — view comment
If there were pure randomness, it could create the most beautiful or the most ugly of universes
October 12, 2020 at 01:56
In: How to be Loved 101  — view comment
All I've done is apply Freudian.and Jungian thinking to the obviously strange psychology of most Christians. They are stuck in the archetype of the co...
October 12, 2020 at 01:52
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
Time doesnt ezist but if it did it would show an encased series of causes. No need for "Pure Actuality"
October 11, 2020 at 22:25
In: Temperments  — view comment
There are those with an archivist bent (I know this from the music industry). Reviewing old studies can be productive, especially in developing health...
October 11, 2020 at 21:40
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
I sometimes consider poetry to be a form of philosophy. Didn't Shiller say there is more wisdom in children books than philosophy books? And I think F...
October 11, 2020 at 21:34
In: Temperments  — view comment
I think those terms are translations from the past. Scientists have to have something in mind that they already think is true and look for stats to ba...
October 11, 2020 at 21:15
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
Is cosmology vertical or horizontal for you generally
October 11, 2020 at 21:04
In: An argument that our universe is a giant causal loop  — view comment
Nothingness for me is Yin
October 11, 2020 at 20:57
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